[libvirt] [PATCH 00/15] Nodedev-mdev overhaul

[Erik Skultety]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 10:23:47AM +0100, Erik Skultety wrote:
> TL;DR:
>     nodedev:
>         - contained a decent amount of redundant code handling the same thing,
>           now it doesn't.
>         - only updated dynamic capabilities during dumpXML, now it does every
>           time it touches them
>     mdev:
>         - didn't update mdev capabilities at all, now it does
>
> This series combines some long-needed refactor changes to the nodedev driver
> with some necessary mdev fixes based on Wu Zongyong's patch series [1].
> There's a lot of simple code movement due to the fact that update of the device
> capabilities is strictly bound to the nodedev driver. The problem with the
> existing approach is that in order to properly update all capabilities,
> especially mdev, we would have to violate the logical code flow we have and
> call back into the driver to have access to sysfs, i.e. driver->(conf|obj)
> handling->util_helpers->DRIVER. Therefore to resolve it, along with all the
> compilation dependencies, I moved most of the capability handling out of the
> driver into src/conf/node_device_conf.c which already contained more than just
> parsing and formatting of the capabilities. I also had to move the existing
> virNodeDevCapMdevType into src/util so that the util helpers would know the
> type they're working with.
>
> [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2018-January/msg00315.html

Fixed all the issues raised by reviewers and pushed, thanks.

Erik